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TIL That a Menger sponge has an infinite surface area and zero volume

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6ErAl TIL that "The Pocket Book of Boners" (1941), by Dr. Seuss, was one of the best selling books of WWII with over 1.34 million copies in print by 1945. It is a compilation of four books in the Boners Series: "Boners" (1931), "More Boners" (1931), "Still More Boners" (1931), and "Prize Boners" (1932).
bDpj TIL Every Restaurant From Season 2 of Kitchen Nightmares Has Closed.
5YEmB TIL that in 1930, the Soviet Union built a plant to make polybutadiene, a synthetic rubber used for tires, out of ethanol from potatoes
Vlnk TIL that a there has been a book written from the perspective of a successful sociopath/psychopath about the intricacies of the life of someone with this condition called “Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight”. The book, for obvious reasons, was written under a pseudonym.
5ZO9 TIL that November 5th 1999 was “Burn All GIFs” Day, when the internet banded together to put an end to the GIF once and for all. It didn’t work.